The Financial Times: The Network is the Computer

[guest post by TS]

An All Things D article this morning about The Financial Times discusses the new FT HTML5 website developed to provide iOS functionality on a website without requiring distribution via Apple's App store, thereby presumably circumventing App store pricing policies.  While at first blush circumventing the high cost of doing business in Apple's domain appears to be the point, do you remember when Apple introduced the idea of programming everything in HTML5 instead of the Flash-based web technology everyone was beginning to use?  The FT is merely trailblazing in the direction Apple has pointed: using HTML5 to make more efficient use of web bandwidth.  While the App store and iOS make use of the old PC-centric ideal with which the world's computer-customer-base is so familiar, HTML5 plays into the iCloud ideal popularized by John Gage's Sun Microsystems pronouncement that "the network is the computer".

TS

AAPL Floating on iCloud Ten

[guest post by TS]

You may have been living under an iRock these last few years, as the world experienced its first (2nd?) iRecession.  Perhaps you didn't know that iAAPL has been recreating the word "revolution" - using a "smart" version of that thing popularized by Nokia and Motorola, the mobile phone, to entice customers into their iStores, where a bunch of iPods and iMacs were waiting to be purchased.

Well, welcome to the future folks, where we will not only be living under the iCloud, but listening to our music from it, streaming our documents from it, recording our HD video to it, and backing up our brains to it with a wet-link.  Now, it looks like Apple couldn't secure the iCloud.com domain - that links over to www.cloudme.com, an iCloud look-alike put together by Swedish/American company xcerion.  But, don't worry--why do you think Apple has billions in it's warchest?

(oops, spoke too soon - the page now redirects to http://www.cloudme.com/en?m=1?m=1?m=1?m=1?m=1?m=1?m=1)  [NB: icloud.com no longer redirects to cloudme.com - icloud.com is now Apple's!  :-]

Do you think Apple is right? from the floor of this morning's WWDC, in San Fran:

11:07 am Lots of customers saying they want an iPad or iPhone as their only device.
11:07 am "We're living in a post-PC world."

..TS.